Review: Envisioning Information
User Review - Isk - GoodreadsOne-sentence summary: Quantitative Display of Visual Information... repeated. Useless. What's different between this book and Visual Display? Mostly common sense advice; skim it for some of the redesigned examples (p. 55, 60, 62, 63, 82, 85, 87). Read full review
Review: Envisioning Information
User Review - Ian - Goodreads"Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity – rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication" (53). Read full review
Review: Envisioning Information
User Review - Roy - GoodreadsWritten in a dense academic style, Tufte's books are a must read for anyone who wants to explain dense information, visually. For visual people (like so many underpaid designers) this is the best way ... Read full review
Review: Envisioning Information
User Review - Matt Swaffer - GoodreadsEnvisioning Information is very similar to another of Tuft's books I read, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Envisioning Information doesn't focus as much on the display of data per se ... Read full review
Review: Envisioning Information
User Review - Joseph - GoodreadsI got a lot more out of it than expected. Read full review
Review: Envisioning Information
User Review - Alice - GoodreadsI love the examples in this book. Unfortunately, a lot of the ideas cannot be easily done using standard software available in my office. Oh the luxury of having you own printing press! But, I'm sure some of the ideas will help me in my work. Read full review
Review: Envisioning Information
User Review - Kristen - GoodreadsTufte's books give you the analytic tools to rethink the way you present and illustrate information--and the examples he provides range across centuries and cultures. Read full review
Review: Envisioning Information
User Review - Scott - GoodreadsNot as insightful as his first book (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information). A variation on a theme well-described in the prior book. Read full review
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User Review - Roger Wood - GoodreadsThe book led was one of the most enlightening books that I've every read. I've always had a penchant for using numbers, images, and heuristics to explain, and began taking Edward Tufte's courses when ... Read full review
Review: Envisioning Information
User Review - Paul Ivanov - GoodreadsThe cross-correlation between Tufte books is much higher than I would have liked (I started with The Visual Display of Quantitative Information), but this is still a great compilation with insightful commentary on many styles of presenting data. Read full review
